TealPoint Software announced the release of TealEcho version 3.00 for Palm OS handhelds. TealEcho adds digital ink to the screen when you write text in Graffiti, showing the actual stroke the handheld sees. TealEcho is PalmOS 5 compatible.

ZDNet has this interview with Patrick Lo, CEO of NetGear. In the interview, Lo says that that gear manufacturers and chipmakers will come up with faster, less expensive and more capable products, a trend he says will lead to the integration of wireless technology in every new device.

Looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger has won the California recall vote, according to CNN’s exit polls. Now, we know this is not, in any way, related to technology news. But, you gotta admit, it’s definitely amusing. Whether you like The Terminator or not, you can’t help but be amused. We certainly are. Stay tuned.

The source code for Half-Life 2 was stolen and released over the Internet, developer Valve said Thursday. Valve Managing Director Gabe Newell said the company suspects that around Sept. 11, someone hacked his email account. His PC then began acting weird, crashing when he would right-click on executables. Wired Magazine reports that Newell believes keystroke recorders for collecting passwords were installed remotely. He believes this happened through a hole in Microsoft’s Outlook personal-information management application.

Pocket PC Thoughts takes a look at the Sprint G1000 by Hitachi, an integrated wireless Pocket PC Phone Edition PDA based on Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition operating system designed to work on Sprint’s PCS Vision network.

F5 Networks announced the new FirePass Controller, the first product to market based upon F5’s acquisition of uRoam. The FirePass Controller offers support for application access, with complete support for Web hosts, terminal servers, client-server applications, legacy hosts, mobile devices, and Windows desktop — without pre-installed client software or application updates.

RCR Wireless News reports that Nokia will release the industry’s first mobile-phone/video-game device, the N-Gage. The N-Gage features GPRS Internet access, multimedia messaging, an FM radio, Java, Bluetooth and an MP3 player. The device also features an MMC slot for thumbnail-sized video game cartridges. A game staring Lara Croft will be available Tuesday, along with about a dozen other titles. Nokia promises more are in the works. The MMC games will sell separately for between $30 and $40.

Defywire announced the general availability of Defywire Mobility Suite release 1.6. With release 1.6, Defywire Mobility Suite introduces new security features, integration with front and back office email systems including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Novell GroupWise, and support for additional wireless mobile devices.

Intel lowered prices by as much as 34 percent on its Pentium M chip for notebook PCs. According to News.com, Intel also lowered the price of its Centrino bundles, which include the Pentium M processor, a group of helper chips called a chipset, and an 802.11b format wireless networking module. Prices on the Centrino bundle that include the 1.7GHz Pentium M fell the most, dropping 30 percent from $713 to $497.

Palm released three handheld models and software designed to make the devices more useful in a business environment. Information Week also reports that Palm has also revamped its core applications for Tungstens, making them more friendly with enterprise applications and increasing their compatibility with features such as built-in support for Microsoft Outlook. Beginning Oct. 1, Tungsten users also will be able to download an IBM Java Virtual Machine that will let them run all kinds of Java applications developed for a mobile workforce.